Episodes
| Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Give Me A Buzz | 20160920 |  Five new tales to accompany this week's shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award: GIVE ME A BUZZ by Emma Healey Carla has a telephone phobia, whilst her mother is seldom off the thing. Mother has a PHD in History of Art, and somehow telephoning and Dutch Flower Paintings become connected in this world of theirs.. Reader Louise Brealey Producer Duncan Minshull. By Emma Healey. Art history and the art of telephoning become connected. Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature |
| Lay Not Thine Hand Upon The Lad | 20160923 |  Five new tales to accompany this week's shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award: LAY NOT THY HAND UPON THE LAD by Ned Beauman On the island, at the command of the Algorithm, father and son carry out the culling of the Woolly Anteater. But one day their work is interrupted by a new set of instructions.. Reader ALLAN CORDUNER Producer Duncan Minshull. By Ned Beauman. Father and son share a culling job. Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature |
| Long Distance | 20160919 |  Five newly commissioned short stories accompany this week's shortlist of the BBC National Short Story Award 2016: LONG DISTANCE by David Szalay He drives a lorry through Europe and sleeps in the cabin at service stations. It's always the same, drive and sleep. Then one night there's a knock on the cabin door.. Reader PAUL HILTON Producer Duncan Minshull. By David Szalay. A truck driver 'sees' things, or does he? Read by PAUL HILTON. Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature |
| The Authorities: A Modern Elegy | 20160922 |  Five newly commissioned short stories accompany this week's shortlist of the BBC National Short Story Award 2016: The Authorities: A Modern Elegy by Jenn Ashworth There's a body on the beach. Various facts are unknown. But it also means the investigators must imagine certain events leading up to death.. Reader Caroline Catz Producer Duncan Minshull. By Jenn Ashworth. There is a body on the beach. Why? Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature |
| The Clock Tower | 20160921 |  Five new tales to accompany this week's shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award: THE CLOCK TOWER, written and read by NAT SEGNIT In the Spanish village after lunch he climbs the tower to the mechanism room, while she refuses to. These two decisions shape their romantic destinies.. Producer Duncan Minshull. Written and read by NAT SEGNIT. A couple's destiny is shaped by the minute hand. Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature |